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  1. Prop 1A Securitization Bonds sold-totaling $1.895B. Counties held harmless from prop tax loan. More details at http://www.csac.counties.org
  2. ...counties and water agencies in the county would lose access to water grants and loans over situations they can’t control.
  3. CSAC continues to have concerns over groundwater monitoring provisions in water reform package...
  4. California Counties have concerns with proposed groundwater monitoring requirements in water legislation: http://tiny.cc/Ycdkr
  5. Counties relieved @ passage of key senate bills: http://tiny.cc/bbui5
  6. Local government partners urge Senate's return and approval of two clean-up measures for Prop1A and HUTA, letter: http://tinyurl.com/n3dtlm
  7. Counties may face severe financial shortages/halt trans projects due to Senate's inability to act; press release: http://tinyurl.com/nzk7ya
  8. "If the state were really interested in protecting local municipalities, it would stop raiding local govt funds to balance the budget..."
  9. Another great editorial on SB 88, this one from SF Chronicle: http://tinyurl.com/m7kf8f
  10. Newspapers agree, SB 88 terrible idea. Contra Costa Times: http://tinyurl.com/ol9aup, Riverside Press Enterprise: http://tinyurl.com/p34tbf
  11. Sac Bee editorial on SB 88 hits nail on the head: "A bankrupt idea is back from the dead" www.sacbee.com/editorials/s...
  12. Ironic w/state budget that relies on local $/cost shifts/cuts, county would have to ask state’s permission to seek bankruptcy protection
  13. CSAC strongly opposes SB 88, now on Assembly floor. It's an unwise and unwarranted intrusion into local fiscal affairs.
  14. The resurfacing of AB 155 is typical, last-minute shenanigans in the Capitol.
  15. AB 155, municipal bankruptcy bill, back in play and terrible as ever. To be amended into SB 88 today, likely voted on next week.
  16. Legislature considering corrections cost-cutting measure, see language here http://tinyurl.com/mlao24; CSAC closely monitoring
  17. What will be left of vital community programs if state continues avoiding its chronic fiscal issues/pushes fiscal problems into the future?
  18. Gravely concerned for the well-being of children across the state and the ripple effects in our local communities due to severe HHS cuts
  19. Final state budget hit to counties: $3 billion through cuts, cost shifts, deferrals, borrowing. See press release: http://tinyurl.com/lplhxy
  20. For Prop 1A, counties need assurance about payback in three years so we can go to market and securitize against state's borrowing.